Workers' Compensation News
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Split Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Benefits for Man With Alleged Back Injury | 02/22/2022 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a worker was not entitled to benefits for an alleged back injury due to discrepancies about when the accident had happened. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Bill to Determine Inmate Wages | 02/15/2022 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Washington state Senate approved a bill that would control how wages are calculated when someone is injured after incarceration. The Senate on ...Read More | |||
| Study Links Spinal Cord Injuries to Mental Health Conditions | 02/11/2022 | ||
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| Adults with a spinal cord injury have a higher incidence of and risk for common psychological morbidities such as depression and anxiety, according to a study by the University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine and published in the medical journal Spinal Cord. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Revives Worker's Claims for Injury at Pharmaceutical Plant | 02/10/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court revived a worker’s civil suit for injuries he allegedly sustained while working at a pharmaceutical plant, finding the doctrine of judicial estoppel should have barred the company's affirmative defenses. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Clarifies Maximum Benefit Calculation for Out-of-State Worker Receiving COLA | 02/09/2022 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that when calculating the compensation due to an injured worker, the cost-of-living ratio applicable to out-of-state recipients must be applied before the statutory provision setting maximum compensation rates. ...Read More | |||
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Sedgwick to Get One-Third of Restitution in MRI Fraud Case | 02/08/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Sedgwick will receive one-third of the nearly $30 million restitution order in what federal prosecutors have called the largest workers’ compensation fraud scheme in the history of Southern California. ...Read More | |||
| State Lawmakers Reconsider Vaccine Injury Bill | 02/07/2022 | ||
| State: ID | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Following a failed measure introduced in the last legislative season, Idaho lawmakers are again considering a bill that would make vaccine injuries compensable in workers’ compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Hospital Worker Presumption | 02/02/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate passed a bill that would create a presumption that certain conditions and injuries are compensable for hospital workers. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Overturns Award to Injured Truck Driver | 02/02/2022 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided North Carolina Court of Appeals overturned an award of temporary disability benefits to an injured truck driver who failed to provide written notice of her accident to her employer. ...Read More | |||
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Solakyan Sentenced to 5 Years, Ordered to Pay $27.9M in Restitution | 01/31/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal judge on Friday sentenced Sam Solakyan to serve five years in prison and to pay $27.9 million in restitution to California workers’ compensation carriers that were victims of what the U.S. Attorney’s Office describes as a $250 million fraud scheme. ...Read More | |||
